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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 19-1 Definitions.">
  <section prefix="§" num="19-1" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In this subtitle, the follow terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Business.">“Business” means a person who is a hotel employer.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Change in control.">“Change in control” means any sale, assignment, transfer, contribution, or other disposition of:<para num="(1)">all or substantially all of the assets used in the operation of a business; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">a discrete portion of a business that continues to operate as the same type of business of:<para num="(i)">the incumbent business employer; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">any person who controls the incumbent business employer.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Commission.">“Commission” means the Wage Commission established by &lt;cite data-path="|11|§2-1"&gt;§ 2-1 {“Commission established”} of this article&lt;/cite&gt;, or the Commission’s designee.</para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Employee.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Employee” means an individual employed by the incumbent business employer:<para num="(i)">who has a length of service with the incumbent business employer of 90 days or more;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">whose primary place of employment is a business subject to a change in control;</para>
        <para num="(iii)">who is employed or contracted to perform work functions directly by either:<para num="(A)">the incumbent business employer; or</para>
          <para num="(B)">a person who has contracted with the incumbent business employer   to provide services at the business subject to the change in control; and</para>
        </para>
        <para num="(iv)">who worked for the incumbent business employer on or after March 5, 2020,    and prior to the execution of a transfer document.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Exclusions.">“Employee” does not include any managerial, supervisory, or confidential employee.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(f)" heading="Hotel employer.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Hotel employer” means the owner, operator, or manager of a publicly or privately owned structure that:<para num="(i)">is used for public lodging or other related service for the public; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">either:<para num="(A)">contains 50 or more guest rooms; or</para>
          <para num="(B)">has earned gross receipts in the 2019 tax year exceeding $5 million.</para>
        </para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">A “hotel employer” includes the owner, operator, manager, or lessee of any food service facility, as defined in &lt;cite data-path="|health|6|1|6-101|(d)"&gt;§ 6-101(d) {“Definitions: Food service facility”}&lt;/cite&gt; of the &lt;cite data-path="|health"&gt;City Health Code, that is physically located on the hotel premises.&lt;/cite&gt;</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(g)" heading="Incumbent business employer.">“Incumbent business employer” means the person who owns, controls, or operates a business immediately prior to the change in control.</para>
    <para num="(h)" heading="Length of service.">“Length of service” means the aggregate total period of time during which an employee has been in active service to an employer, including periods of time when the employee was on leave or on vacation.</para>
    <para num="(i)" />
    <para num="(j)" heading="Successor business employer.">“Successor business employer” means the person who owns, controls, or operates a business immediately after the change in control.</para>
    <para num="(k)" heading="Transfer document.">“Transfer document” means the purchase agreement or other documents creating a binding agreement to effect the change in control.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 20-479</annotation>
    <annotation type="Editor's Notes">For the Code-wide standard definition of “person”, see &lt;cite data-path="|general"&gt;City General Provisions Article&lt;/cite&gt;, &lt;cite data-path="|general|1|1|1-107"&gt;§ 1-107&lt;/cite&gt;.</annotation>
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</baltimore-city-law>
